BYU women’s tennis opens its fall at the USTA SoCal Intercollegiate Tennis Championships from Thursday, Sept. 24 through Sunday, Sept. 27 in San Diego. There is no television, stream or radio listing attached to the event. The useful way to follow it is through the official ITA draw and match schedule.
Those pages already answer the biggest question BYU’s schedule did not: nine Cougars appear in the 64-player singles draw. Four carry seeds. The daily first-serve times are still TBA, so the draw is real and the clock is not.
BYU USTA SoCal follow information
| Event detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Event | 5th USTA SoCal Intercollegiate Tennis Championships |
| Mountain dates | Thursday, Sept. 24 through Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026 |
| Daily start | TBA; do not treat BYU’s placeholder timestamp as a first serve |
| Venue | University of San Diego, San Diego, California |
| TV/stream | No official broadcast or stream published |
| Radio | No official radio listing published |
| Draws and results | Official ITA tournament draw |
| Daily order | Official ITA match schedule |
| Tournament center | ITA event overview |
| Permanent event link | BYU women’s tennis schedule |
BYU’s official event record uses the time_tba marker. It also stores an overnight UTC timestamp, but that is not a hidden 11:11 p.m. Mountain start. It is placeholder data attached to a multi-day tournament. Fans should use Thursday through Sunday as the verified Mountain date window and wait for the ITA schedule to assign each match.
The ITA tournament center lists University of San Diego as the primary location and identifies tournament 26-80378 as a Division I women’s event with singles and doubles competition. A UC San Diego schedule also places the intercollegiate championships at USD’s Hogan Tennis Center, but the ITA tournament center is the result of record.
Nine Cougars are in the singles draw
The field is not a vague team entry anymore. The published draw names these BYU players and opening opponents:
| BYU player | Seed | First opponent |
|---|---|---|
| Sage Bergeson | 11 | Hayley Roberts, Utah |
| Cara Korhonen | Unseeded | Emily Deming, San Diego |
| Angelique van der Walt | Unseeded | Nikol Mircheva, UNLV |
| Bella Lewis | Unseeded | Sonya Goldberg, UC San Diego |
| Sephi Sheng | 15 | Emilija Pranyte, San Jose State |
| Yu-Yun Chen | 9 | Alexia Clara Adascalitei, Grand Canyon |
| Allegra van der Walt | Unseeded | Emma Fantousis, San Jose State |
| Chelsea Bluestein | Unseeded | Sein Myoung, Stanford |
| Sue Yan Tan | 16 | Stella Beldiman, Boise State |
That is a useful opening-day map, but it is not a spring dual-match lineup. BYU will not earn one team point by winning two doubles courts and then race to four total points. Each player moves through her own singles bracket. Doubles is a separate event, and its pairings should be taken from the official draw once that tab is populated rather than inferred from the singles list.
The seeds give BYU four visible reference points. Chen is No. 9, Bergeson No. 11, Sheng No. 15 and Tan No. 16. A seed is bracket placement, not a promised run. The more interesting test is whether those four avoid an early exit while one of the five unseeded entries breaks into the final 16.
Three opening matches come with immediate context
Bergeson starts against Utah’s Hayley Roberts. That is the only opening pairing with a direct rivalry label, but the fall format strips away the usual team-score noise. One singles result will stand on its own. It can tell us how Bergeson handles a seeded position; it cannot settle anything about a future BYU-Utah dual.
Lewis draws UC San Diego’s Sonya Goldberg, while Korhonen gets San Diego’s Emily Deming. Those are two local-program tests in BYU’s first event of the fall. They also make the schedule page worth checking early because host-area players can be spread across multiple courts and sessions.
Bluestein has the sharpest name-brand draw, opening against Stanford’s Sein Myoung. That does not make it the championship match in disguise. It makes it a clean first comparison for a BYU player entering without a seed.
There is another reason to watch the names rather than the old roster count. Korhonen, Sheng and the van der Walt sisters appear in the official tournament draw even though the roster file currently powering our women’s tennis roster page has not yet added them. The draw confirms tournament entry, not every biographical detail or a permanent lineup slot. We will use the official pairing now and wait for BYU to update the roster record before publishing hometowns, classes or other profile facts.
The result routine is simple
This event does not need a fabricated streaming link. It needs a reliable follow routine:
- Open the ITA schedule and search for the BYU player’s surname.
- Confirm the scheduled court and local time after the organizer posts them.
- Use the draw page for advancement and final set scores.
- Treat a blank schedule cell as unannounced, not canceled.
- Check BYU Athletics after play for any official recap or roster update.
The distinction between the schedule and draw matters. The schedule tells you when a player is expected on court. The draw tells you whom she faced, the set score and where the result sends her next. If those pages update at different speeds, do not declare advancement from an empty slot or a social post alone.
Set scores matter here. “BYU won five matches” would flatten straight-set wins, three-set escapes, retirements and doubles results into one pile. Our recap will track each Cougar’s path by round and score, then separate the seeded results from any unseeded run that changes the weekend.
What this weekend can tell us
This is BYU’s first tournament on an eight-stop fall calendar. The full fall schedule moves next to Big 12 individual competition, then brings ITA Regionals to Provo in October. San Diego is the first chance to replace offseason roster questions with court evidence.
Nine singles entries give coach Holly Hasler a broad sample. The seeded group carries immediate expectations, while the five unseeded players have room to change the shape of the bracket. The draw also introduces four names that were absent from BYU Sport Nuts’ last official-roster import. That makes this weekend partly about results and partly about identifying the group BYU will actually carry into the fall.
Do not overread one round. A first-match loss does not set the spring singles order, and a quarterfinal does not guarantee a dual-match position. Fall individual tennis is useful because it creates repeated, specific evidence: who holds serve late, who survives a third set, which doubles pairing advances and who can beat a seed.
The first hard checkpoint is the round of 16. BYU has four seeded paths that are supposed to reach that neighborhood. If all four get there, the seeds held. If an unseeded Cougar joins them, BYU has found a more interesting development than the bracket expected.
What to check Thursday
Start with the official schedule, not BYU’s placeholder UTC time. The organizer’s page currently shows Thursday, Sept. 24 but no completed matches, and exact first serves have not been published in the material we could verify Wednesday morning.
Once times appear, the nine surnames above are the BYU watch list. Keep the draw open beside the schedule. There is no verified broadcast to hunt down, and no reason to invent one when the tournament center provides the part that matters most: opponents, rounds and official results.
San Diego will not produce a team record for BYU. It will produce nine singles paths, a separate doubles bracket and the first real evidence of the Cougars’ fall.
Sources and further reading
- BYU Athletics: official event record 25547 for the stable schedule ID, San Diego location, scheduled status, Sept. 24-27 window and authoritative
time_tbamarker. - BYU Athletics: 2026 fall schedule announcement for the season-opening event, dates, location and eight-tournament fall context.
- ITA: official tournament overview for tournament 26-80378, the University of San Diego location and singles/doubles event structure.
- ITA: official draw for the nine BYU singles entries, four seeds and opening-round pairings.
- ITA: official match schedule for daily court assignments, first serves and completed results as they populate.
- UC San Diego: 2026-27 schedule for the independent host-site listing at Hogan Tennis Center.
- BYU Sport Nuts: women’s tennis hub, roster, schedule and all-sports index.
